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In the local election yesterday (1st), the national superintendents of education were also elected.



Reporter Kim Kyung-hee pointed out what kind of change the liberal-leaning superintendents' monopoly over the past 8 years would bring down and the relatively conservative-leaning superintendents would increase in the actual education field.



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In the election for the superintendent four years ago, progressive candidates were elected in 14 cities and provinces excluding 3 regions.



In this election, the ratio of liberal and conservative superintendents became even 9 to 8.



In Seoul, conservative candidates Cho Jeon-hyeok, Park Seon-young, and Cho Young-dal failed to unify and failed to prevent Cho Hee-yeon's third term as superintendent of education.



However, for the first time in Gyeonggi-do, conservative candidate Lim Tae-hee was elected, and in Jeju, North Chungcheong Province and Busan, even incumbent superintendents with high recognition were defeated by conservative candidates.



It is analyzed that the problem of lowering basic academic ability due to the corona was highlighted as a side effect of innovative education, and the atmosphere of regime change also had an impact.



[Kim Young-sik / Co-CEO of Good Teachers Movement: (Even with innovative education) Students and parents felt anxious in the midst of the entrance exam system still not changing. .)]



After the election, representative policies of progressive superintendents such as the abolition of academic achievement evaluation, the Student Human Rights Ordinance and innovative schools are likely to lose their momentum.



Im Tae-hee, the conservative-elected Gyeonggi Superintendent of Education, announced that he would revise the innovative education policies that were uniformly applied to school sites.



[Im Tae-hee / Gyeonggi Superintendent-elect-elect: Currently, Gyeonggi-do education is being diagnosed as uniform, biased, and complacency education.

Let's make the '9 o'clock school system' and other uniform implementations autonomous (I will)]



On the other hand, Seoul Superintendent Cho Hee-yeon, who succeeded in the third term, made it clear that he would push forward with the existing policy.



[Jo Hee-yeon/Seoul Superintendent of Education: I am against the policy of abolition of private high schools, but since there are a lot of parents and parents of general high schools, I hope (the government) will give a serious review (hopefully)]



The new political landscape It is pointed out that efforts should be made to complement policy decisions rather than deepen ideological confrontation.



(Video coverage: Hwang In-seok, Park Jin-ho, Seol Seol-hwan, video editing: Lee Seung-yeol)